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11-letter words containing h, e, s, l

  • seychellois — a native or inhabitant of Seychelles.
  • shacklebone — the wrist
  • shade cloth — a covering made of cloth or plastic, especially one used to control the amount of sunlight to which plants are exposed.
  • shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
  • shake a leg — an act or instance of shaking, rocking, swaying, etc.
  • shallowness — of little depth; not deep: shallow water.
  • shamelessly — lacking any sense of shame: immodest; audacious.
  • shared line — a telephone number that is assigned to more than one person, for example in an office. When somebody calls the number, all of the phones will ring until somebody picks up their phone to answer the call
  • shareholder — a holder or owner of shares, especially in a company or corporation.
  • sharonville — a town in SW Ohio.
  • sharpeville — a town in E South Africa: scene of riots in 1960 (when 69 demonstrators died), 1984, and 1985 (when 19 died)
  • shaving gel — product that softens hair growth for shaving
  • sheet glass — glass in sheet form produced by drawing or by the cylinder glass process.
  • sheet metal — metal in sheets or thin plates.
  • shelbyville — a city in central Indiana.
  • shelf angle — an angle iron attached to or suspended from a girder to carry masonry or the ends of a number of joists.
  • shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
  • shelf space — amount of room on shelves
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • shell gland — a gland in certain invertebrates that secretes the components required for forming the shell of an egg
  • shell shock — battle fatigue.
  • shell steak — a cut of steak from the short loin
  • shellacking — lac that has been purified and formed into thin sheets, used for making varnish.
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • shelterbelt — a row of trees providing shelter from the wind
  • shelterless — something beneath, behind, or within which a person, animal, or thing is protected from storms, missiles, adverse conditions, etc.; refuge.
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • sherlockian — pertaining to or characteristic of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, known for his skill in solving mysteries through deductive reasoning.
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
  • shift lever — the lever mounted on the steering column or floor of a vehicle that enables the driver to shift gears.
  • shigellosis — an acute intestinal infection caused by a bacterium of the genus Shigella, especially S. dysenteriae, common among children and characterized by fever, abdominal pain, and diarrhea.
  • shingle oak — an oak, Quercus imbricaria, yielding a wood used for shingles, clapboards, etc.
  • shinplaster — a plaster for the shin or leg.
  • shipbuilder — a person whose occupation is the designing or constructing of ship.
  • shirtsleeve — not wearing a jacket; informally dressed: a shirt-sleeve mob.
  • shiveringly — in a shivering manner, usually from cold or fright
  • shoe polish — wax for making footwear shiny
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • shore leave — permission to spend time ashore, usually 48 hours or more, granted a member of a ship's company.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • short novel — a prose narrative midway between the novel and the short story in length and scope
  • short title — an abridged listing in a catalog or bibliography, giving only such essential information as the author's name and the book's title, publisher, and date and place of publication.
  • short-lived — living or lasting only a little while.
  • shovel beak — a deformity of the beak in intensively reared chicks
  • shovelboard — the game of shuffleboard.
  • shriekingly — with shrieking
  • shroud-line — a cloth or sheet in which a corpse is wrapped for burial.
  • shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
  • shutterless — lacking a shutter
  • shuttle bus — a bus that travels regularly between two places
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